Live Updates: Protesters Take Over Building on Columbia Campus [View all]

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Source: WaPo

Protesters occupied a building on Columbia’s main campus early Tuesday, escalating tensions at the university after weeks of walkouts, encampments and outdoor gatherings by pro-Palestinian demonstrators that had led to suspensions and more than a hundred arrests.

A student group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which organized the encampment on campus, said on social media that Hamilton Hall had been taken over by “an autonomous group” of “Columbia community members.” It said those protesters planned to remain in the building until the university conceded to C.U.A.D.’s demands, which include divestment from companies doing business in Israel.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/30/nyregion/columbia-protests-college

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This is Jan 6th for these universities. Violent takeover is unacceptable. Expell them, charge them & keep their tuition.
Doing NOTHING will only encourage more; taking away the rights of 99.9% of the students.